A guide to Manhattan's most talked-about new hotel openings, from Battery Park to Midtown.

A crop of new hotels in Manhattan are establishing themselves on the scene with sleek design, buzzy restaurants (11 Howard's Le Coucou is the place to be for brunch these days), and museum-quality art. Chain-heavy Midtown gets some shaking up with a few boutique openings, the Financial District reaches critical mass with two game-changers, and the Ace Hotel New York in NoMad gains some fun neighbors. Here's the list to keep in mind for your next visit to the city.

Midtown

Our favorite takeaway from the InterContinental New York Barclay’s 20-month, $180 million reno: its thorough 88-label gin bar. The Renwick is banking on its cultural cachet—F. Scott used to hang there when it was an art house—to lure the cool kids up to 40th and Park. The Whitby, from punchy Brit brand Firmdale (think lots of mixed patterns), has a sunlit afternoon tea parlor and is just steps from Central Park.

Lower Manhattan

We love the huge Calder mobile hanging in 11 Howard’s lobby and that the hottest restaurant in town, Le Coucou, is downstairs. Chinatown’s first proper hotel, 50 Bowery, has art from MOCA and kick-ass views from its twenty-first-floor bar. The Financial District keeps getting more interesting with the opening of the Four Seasons Downtown and The Beekman, which has that nine-story atrium and restaurants from Tom Colicchio and Keith McNally.

Courtesy The Beekman

The Beekman is a landmark in its own right: the nine-story office building-turned-hotel was one of Lower Manhattan’s first skyscrapers.

NoMad

The 90 gray-and-white rooms at HGU are perfectly comfy with their Frette bedding and faux fur throws, but the late-night jazz bands are even better. With its European oak, potted plants, and daybeds, Made will give you plenty of home-reno inspo. If Matthew Rolston’s fire-engine red rooms at The Redbury aren’t your thing, go for the potato carbonara pizza at Danny Meyer’s Marta.